Government’s promise to stimulate economy within 120 days ‘a joke,’ says economist

U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has spent only six per cent of its $787-billion stimulus package.

The federal government's promise to begin infrastructure projects intended to stimulate the lagging economy within 120 days of the January budget was "a joke," says TD Bank Chief Economist Don Drummond.

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